The blunt announcement that there would be no Nato membership for the country was hard to take for those who are paying the highest price for freedom
Icy winds whipped at the forest of flags honouring Ukraine’s war dead on Friday as soldiers joined the bereaved in Kyiv’s Independence Square to contemplate the kind of peace that leaders in the White House and Kremlin were conspiring to force on them.
The blunt announcement that there would be no Nato membership for Ukraine, along with President Trump’s warm words for Vladimir Putin, hit with a heavy thud among those who have paid and are paying the highest price for Ukraine’s freedom.
“What can I say?” asked Yura, a middle-aged volunteer soldier home for two days from the front outside Pokrovsk where Ukrainian forces are battling to prevent Russian troops breaking through their last defensive lines.
